This article attempts to understand why ethnic-regional civil war has challenged the national unity of Côte d'Ivoire and not Ghana, two neighbouring countries with nearly identical ethnic, religious, and regional divisions, ...

Clark, Gracia(University Press of America and The Society for Economic Anthropology, 1989)

This paper analyses how Asante women trading in the Central Market of Kumasi (Ghana’s second largest city) balance the demands of trading and domestic work upon their time and money. Matriliny and duolocal marriage define ...

Stoeltje, Beverly J.(Institute of African Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, 2006)

Providing an overview of Asante legal and philosophical principles establishes that the performance of litigation in Asante is more than simply the resolution of a dispute, but is an exercise in identity and citizenship. ...

Natural human conversations are hardly 'error-free', due to the properties of interaction. Repair is therefor a concomitant part of any natural conversation. Phonetic (and sometimes Morpho-syntactic) cues are deployed ...

The primary objective of this thesis is to understand why the Konaré administration aggressively pursued decentralization reforms in Mali. It will assess the local, national, and global forces that prompted the new government ...

Martin, Phyllis M.(African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1986)

Cloth was a basic resource for the peoples of the Loango Coast throughout their precolonial history. It was used in
daily life for furnishings and for clothing; it was essential in landmark events such as initiation and ...